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Dear wulfy23, I sadly have to point out I changed back to official snapshot. I had no time to debug/investigate this because I needed a stable, reliable router/gateway to do my home office work stuff. I am very sorry, otherwise I would debug anything to get this straight.

I will report here if such strange issues happen also with the official snapshot.
I had the strange feeling my ssh connections via ipv6 terminated more often then with my old snapshot (in this they stayed online connected for days) with the new snapshot also but I was fumbling a lot with the network, I have to reassure. From extern/WAN through the actual router into the LAN they are stable.

Additionally, I do not know either what ip6weight is but please let me point out there is actually much changing in what options are exposed from luci to this file. The option was not inserted from me manually.
See for reference this thread from me: [Solved] LAN clients no IPv6 (ra_mtu option in /etc/config/dhcp causes problems) - Installing and Using OpenWrt / Network and Wireless Configuration - OpenWrt Forum. Also obey the reference to a similair thread in it.

May be additional users show up with such an issue...

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785

perfect... thankyou! yes... that is probably also what I would have done... thanks for getting back so quickly ( and again for the info about the potential issue )...

786

Hi all, apologies if this is not the right place to seek advice on this topic. Over the last almost full year, I have benefitted greatly from using wulfy23's community build for the Rpi4. When I first started using this build, there was no official build yet, and I spent lots of time configuring a bunch of settings and whatnot to get everything to work. I'm basically a complete beginner when it comes to these things, and because of that, I'm probably not going to be able to provide much useful feedback for these newer, more experimental builds. With that said, I'm writing to see if someone could help me figure out how to preserve my configurations, settings and all that while transitioning over to the openwrt official build. Will I be able to use the existing "flash firmware" on the community build or do I have to reflash the SD card? If the latter, what is the best way to preserve those configurations, themes, etc. in order to make the transition as seamless as possible? Thanks to everyone who has posted here and helped me learn openwrt on the rpi4 and special thanks to wulfy23 for making this all possible :slight_smile:

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787

glad the build has been of use to you...

no need... perfectly valid question...

the best way is to;

  • add any extra files you have not added yet to sysupgrade.conf@luci>system>backup>configuration
  • upgrade to the lastest (community) build to get the gui backup feature
  • use the backup feature provided
    backup
    backup842×54 11.5 KB
  • download the file
    backup_w_file
    backup_w_file1084×54 14.3 KB
  • flash a new official factory (remove sdcard and full flash)
  • boot the new factory image (at 192.168.1.1)
  • restore your backup (ip may change if different perhaps reboot)

so given the advice above... likely not...

for advanced users technically you could try 'sysupgrade -n -p -F newfactory.img'... but there will be automatic artifacts in installed_packages.txt... (which wouldn't be a direct problem)

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Hi wulfy23, thank you so much for the prompt response, I really appreciate it! I'm planning to work on this sometime in the next week when I am able to take the home network down and will report back one way or another once I've tried. Thanks again! :slight_smile:

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789

a few new options in the next build...

  1. optional boot time smb mounting (no(ini)backport)
all options need to be specified 
#SMBUSER="john"
#SMBPASSWD="smith"
#SMBUID="1000"
#SMBSERVER="10.2.3.6"
#SMBSHARE="downloads"
#SMBMNTPNT="/usbstick/downloads"
  1. opkg proto selection ((ini)backport - comment it out if you prefer https)
OPKGFEEDS_USEHTTP=1
  1. www/dl youtube download interface (no(ini)backport - very beta no auth as yet... anyone good at php?)
# YOUTUBEDL="/usbstick/downloads" #NOTE for now you must use this path and mount a usb drive or smb share to it

ytdl3.2
ytdl3.21694×392 57 KB

  1. advanced users: boot-time rmmod (no(ini)backport)
#RMMOD="snd_bcm2835 snd_compress snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_rawmidi snd_pcm snd_seq_device snd_timer snd soundcore rndis_host pl2303 ums_freecom ums_alauda iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp dm9601 ums_jumpshot ums_karma usb_f_ecm u_ether sch_pie sch_red xt_cgroup xt_pkttype xt_owner sch_gred sch_teql ums_isd200 ums_datafab sch_hfsc sch_htb sch_tbf"
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Isn't the official build still snapshot, so doesn't have luci Gui etc installed, it won't have the drivers for ethernet to usb adapters preloaded... I'd stick with the community build for now, or compile you own if you just want the basics.

791

As an FYI, there is a new stable eeprom update out now for the RPi4 (March 18, 2021):

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792

Just curious what's the current status/timeline for official build (moving away from snapshot)?

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793

I have a question: is there a chance to get jumbo frames on the onboard nic?

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794

http://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2021-April/034866.html

https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc1/targets/bcm27xx/bcm2711

795

you'll need a buildroot for that based on a quick search ( scroll down to the graysky post )...

surprised that thread only had a handfull of posts...

either way... this build is created with the imagebuilder so leverages 1:1 official binaries. as a result (kernel/kmod) compile time mods are not an option.

consider creating a thread about this on the general forum...

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796

are you going to build image using 21.01 for pi4?

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797

good question... ( in the past few weeks i've put up a few 21.02-SNAPSHOT and 21.02.0-rc1 see point 1 below )

at the moment there are a few factors that govern this...

  • stability of current master
  • compatibility of master with build features
  • performance and or other benefits offered by master
  • online storage space
  • user demand

  1. now they are virtually identical... so it's primarily for the use of providing upstream testing for the rc phase... (and build compatibility handling)

  2. a point may likely arise where some sort of forking will be necessary for one or several build features and the build may switch to the stable release... for an indefinite period depending on how major the changes are...

feel free to grab on of the 21.02.0-rcX images the next time they are up...

good to do whilst they are relatively crosscompatible...

i've tested a few and added support for the majority of build features so they are relatively 'safe' to try out...

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798

so I tried nicmove and mac-match and proceeded to brick the Pi.

I had an old apple A1277 100mb dongle lying around so put that and a realtek into a powered USB3 hub. Works for me as ISP2 is less than 100mb

That has kept the same eth1 and eth2 assignment through multiple reboots.

I needed to load kmod-usb-net-asix-ax88179 to make it work. Can I suggest to include in the build?

Now ordering gb USB3 dongles with chipset AX88179 made by UGREEN.

100mb adapters are based upon ASIX AX88772 chipsets.

Will post back in about 10 days how many dongles I can get working on a powered hub..

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kmod-usb-net-asix-ax88179 - 5.4.113-1 - Kernel module for USB-to-Ethernet ASIX AX88179 based USB 3.0/2.0 to Gigabit Ethernet adapters

is already included...

do you mean;

kmod-usb-net-asix - 5.4.113-1 - Kernel module for USB-to-Ethernet Asix convertors

?

800

Quite sure it's this one for Apple branded 10/100 USB2 to Ethernet adapter, as that's what I used before on one of my several attempts with it. ax88179 is for 10/100/1000 USB3 adapter.

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cheers... dug into the source as the opkg description was a little confusing... (was concerned about conflicts) fwiw... the latter 'kmod-usb-net-asix-ax88179' includes (while the other non-ax88179 one has about 100 adapters listed including most usb2.0 types which would line up with what @KnowNothing says);

device-list 
  KCONFIG:=CONFIG_USB_NET_AX88179_178A
  FILES:=$(LINUX_DIR)/drivers/$(USBNET_DIR)/ax88179_178a.ko

vendor: 04b4 ("Cypress Semiconductor Corp."), product: 3610
vendor: 04e8 ("Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd"), product: a100
vendor: 04e8 ("Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd"), product: a100
vendor: 050d ("Belkin Components"), product: 0128
vendor: 0711 ("Magic Control Technology Corp."), product: 0179
vendor: 0930 ("Toshiba Corp."), product: 0a13 ("AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [Toshiba]")
vendor: 0b95 ("ASIX Electronics Corp."), product: 178a
vendor: 0b95 ("ASIX Electronics Corp."), product: 178a
vendor: 0b95 ("ASIX Electronics Corp."), product: 1790 ("AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet")
vendor: 0b95 ("ASIX Electronics Corp."), product: 1790 ("AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet")
vendor: 0df6 ("Sitecom Europe B.V."), product: 0072 ("AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [Sitecom]")
vendor: 0df6 ("Sitecom Europe B.V."), product: 0072 ("AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [Sitecom]")
vendor: 17ef ("Lenovo"), product: 304b ("AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [ThinkPad OneLink GigaLAN]")
vendor: 17ef ("Lenovo"), product: 304b ("AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet [ThinkPad OneLink GigaLAN]")
vendor: 2001 ("D-Link Corp."), product: 4a00 ("DUB-1312 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter")
vendor: 2001 ("D-Link Corp."), product: 4a00 ("DUB-1312 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter")

(will add it to future builds as despite the confusing names... seems there is no conflict) thanyou's!

802

This is for the USB2 to Ethernet Adapter (Apple branded):

Screen Shot 2021-04-27 at 17.34.04

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803

right... so that list above is for the one which was included... the (kmod-usb-net-asix-ax88179) which is the older set of cards!

oops... surprise nobody raised-it/complained yet!

thankyou for the info!

(fwiw usb-net-aqc111(aquantia 5/2.5G) was added from builds ~3.1 onwards... so anyone buying dongles may wish to acquire one of these now they have 'official' drivers... they are more expensive but will prove handy to have around in the coming years me thinks...)